Black-and-white colobus

Colobus guereza · Cercopithecidae

The mantled guereza, also known simply as the guereza, historically the eastern black-and-white colobus, and Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, is a black-and-white colobus, a type of Old World monkey. It is native to much of west central and east Africa, including Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Chad. The species consists of several subspecies that differ in appearance.

Where the Black-and-white colobus lives

Recorded in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania, Central African Rep. and Congo (Africa).

Most records fall in Rift Valley, Central, Oromiya, Orientale, Wakiso and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples.

See the Black-and-white colobus’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 2,698 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.